"Fiction just has a lot more room for……" — Amy Waldman
"Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism."
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33 Quotes by Amy Waldman
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Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.
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Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.
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In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
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Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn…
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The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes
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In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like…
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Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
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In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it…
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I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.
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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
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My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become…
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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with…
— Tony Campolo
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought…
— David Seabury
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence:…
— Adrienne Rich
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows…
— Paul de Man
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Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the…
— Judith Levine
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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill…
— Winston Churchill
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
— Adrienne Rich
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Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the…
— Luce Irigaray
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Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set…
— Erma Bombeck
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Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space…
— Joan Mitchell
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It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this…
— John Scott
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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
— Michel de Certeau
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